The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-10-14

Mr. Powderly arose and introduced the dis
tinguished guest in a most felicitous way.
SIS an introduction necessary" asked Mr.. Pow
Derby OF the audience. There were several neg
attga responses, and Mr.. pegaasly continued.
Il merely wish to say that the man who is the
idol Of my heart, the champion of the DOWN
trodden people whom ! love, is here to-day; and
ii he had his deserts he would stand at the high
est point Of fame. He stands as the representa-
Dayitt."
This happy utterance, accompanied by
much feeling on the part of the master
workman, was greeted with applause. In
all of Mr.. Davftt's experience Upon the
rostrum it is doubtful whether he ever stood
up to speak to an audience more completely
in sympathy with him and his great mission,
DAvTTT's SPEECH.
/ thank you for the honor of addressing tho
general assembly of the knights Of Labor.
Your actions and looks tell me in advance OF the
sympathy which l trust will be given official
expression later came here to bespeak your
reasons why we should obtain for Ireland the
commentator of the worlds greatest labor or
gantzatton. We seek to obtain for Ireland the
full right Of industry and the principles Of
agrarian justice. Ireland is agricultural. We
want a land system that shall be consistent
with the lovers of human justice rather than
the selfish laws Of an hereditary aristocracya and
grasplng monopolies. We seek to accomplish
these ends by cur own voices. The Irish
people and an Irish parliament can do the
work If they have a chance. Our movement
for reform has helped similar else
where. The working people OF England, Scot
land and Wales are friendly to our hight for home
rule. We have called attention to the injustice
Of English landlordlsm and to It's importation to
America. Some Of the evils Of our land system
have stolen into your country, but railroad land
robbers and ~monopolists End 1t more difficult TO
steal your land than before the land league was
formed. So you are somewhat Indebted TO the
Irish movement. The protection Of the interests
- TnhAE 4n H.1N aAl..fn tho H. 4 -
craftsmanship, and we in Ireland are fighting
the battle Of industrial life all over the world.
the struggle of the masses against the classes is
the same everywhere. One OF our national
needs is to keep tho people at nome and
stop the tide OF enforced emigration. Ireland
has room for 100000 people. There are only
$1,000 600 there now, where there used to be
5000, 900. AT this rate Ireland will soon be de-
populated, even within a generation. Ireland
may have become a name synonymous with
poverty and discomfort, but as our country has
not sinned against civilization in fighting TO be
free, we think we have a right to public reco9-
milton in our endeavor to possess our patrimony.
through in centuries Of persecution. In all that
time our people have no record of a
crime committed by them against human
liberty. For forty years England has
Systematically carried on the work Of ex-
patriation. Englsnd's territorial aristocraoy
is threatened by our movement and think
expatriationt the only escape from the danger.
Refusing to acquiesce in cowardly subseIvieuce
is one of our crimes, and immigration becomes
the method by which England's policy of ex-
patriatiop is carried out. No country stands
more in need of laborthan ours. But England's
policy drives 1t across the Atlantic Tor the en-
ployment 1t is denied at home. We are driven
TO poverty by laws expressly passed against our
manufacturinR-an atrociously unjust and cow
ardly policy. Emigration under normal condi-
lions would be right, but no economic necessity
exists for 1t, but the reverse. Ireiands thou
sands of acres are suffering for want OF culttva-
tion. When labor reaches your shores it is inn
poverished. It seeks employment in Eastern
cities, completes with you and conflicts with your
working classes. England is really doing her
best TO reduce your wage rate to the low rate
prevailing there. The classes who are ruling and
running Ireland are also trying to drive English
born labor abroad. England is thus killing two
birds with one stone, Kidding herself of the
Celtic element and reducing your workingmen
to her level of wages. The workers claim that
the idle and do-nothing classes should 20. Zap
plause.l An hereditary Rristocracy is an enorm-
Gus evil that must be swept away. Should you
give official expression against the coercion poll
icy, you may offend the aristocracy, but not the
toiling millions of the old world. Victory for
labor in Ireland would help you
here. appeal for your support.
You cannot be Indifferent to the wrongs of
workers anywhere. In Earope we have enc mics
In the government. You are better of. The
government Is loysl TO you. and you to it. The
eyes Of the laDoring classes of Europe are upon
you and this convention. The spectacle of your
organization, loyal 60 the constitution of your
country, working without interference from the
government, gives us pride and pleasure. We
VlSW IL VITA INTEREST Hllu eAp6cbdHCJs b0c Glasses
view it with alarm. In nc part Of the w5rld
have you moro powerful enemies than in Lon
don. The story of the forcing the opium
trade upon China, the sufferings OF en-
slsged India, the hembarament OF Alex-
andria, are samples of what has been
done in the interest of English capitalists.
1t is the same power doing all this that is ruin
ing Ireland. II fears the Irish policy much, but
it fears the solidarity of Irish. Scotch and Eng
lish labor more. What a scene is presented to
the friend Of human liberality to-day in the
fFizhs ua4f1s3 - Freedom ~ Geeack ie Aan4a1 cha.
jury trial is abolished, the rights Of the press
are trs-nled under foot to-day in our Irish
home. 1rlsh cabins are wrecked by croSbar
brigades, English bayonets driving the poe I'm
their cots, murder takes place at Mitchellstown
and editors are imprisoned because they. strive
to speak boldly and truly for human liberty.
Irish Nationalists are entitled in justice to pur-
sue the course they do. Scotland and England
largely sympathfze with sus and we are war
ranted in believing thar here In the nome Of
freedom, where labors rights are respected and
labor problems solved as never heretofore, we
shall not be denied the sympathy from your
grand organization that our necessities and
calamities justly claim. I Thank you for this
opportunity. If 1t is not Impairment, I pray you
be harmonious and wise, forbearing and tolerant,
50 thai your enemies may be disappointed, and
your friends have the happiness Of knowing that
good has been accomplished.
RousrNa
a. vote Of thanks was extended Mr.. Davitt
with a viii, and MI. Powderly then offered
1ACcC AAnhAAS AN9NAAetbHos
Whereas, The knights Of Labor. in loyal adj
herence to IKE principles enunciated in the
declaration OF the Independence OF the United
States. believing that every other nation should
possess. as an inalienable prerogative, the right
in it's people 20 life and the pursuit OF happiness;
and,
Whereas. The K. Of L. being an organisation
of workers which seeks TO obtain the full pro-
lection Of just and enlightened laws for the
rights and interests Of the laboring masses of
this continent,
Resolved. That this general assembly Of our
order afirms the right Of the people OF Ireland
to that national Independence for which they
have struggled so steadfastIy and 80 long: that
we desire TO place on record an expression Of
our. strongest condemnation ~ the &hs<5sx-
GUS acts by which England's rulers In
Ireland are attempting, by the violation
Of all principles Of civilized government, ito
suppress legitimate efforts Of the irish people to
obtain home rule and such other reforms as will
supply every national safeguard to the interests
Of the classes OF that country. That we con-
denim as disgraceful TO any civilized government
the laws and systems OF which the agricultural
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